Waste Control and Cost Minimization by Proper Waste Management Programs

This research paper highlights the sources of paper wastage in sheetfed offset press. Paper wastage control is very important from environmental point of view and the economical point too. This project was undertaken in KUK Press which is a very important part of Kurukshetra University Kurukshetra where in data was collected to analyze the wastage control and factors affecting the wastage especially of paper. The data has been tabulated and presented graphically to analyze effectively. Controlling wastage paper wastage is very important to make the process economical as paper is the element having highest consumption in printing. Data collected has a numbers of elements like name of job, no. of colors, name of machine, speed of machine, no. of stops, temperature of room, total quantity of job, good quantity, wastage, wastage % etc. Finally results indicated that wastage depends upon certain factors like type of job, no of colors, type of paper, temperature of room, quantity of job etc.